San Ángel is a
colonia or neighborhood of
Mexico City
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, located in the southwest in
Álvaro Obregón borough. Historically, it was a rural community, called Tenanitla in the pre-Hispanic period. Its current name is derived from the El Carmen monastery school called San Ángel Mártir. San Ángel remained a rural community, centered on the monastery until the 19th and 20th centuries, when the monastery was closed and when the area joined
urban sprawl
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of Mexico City. However, the area still contains many of its former historic buildings and El Carmen is one of the most visited museums in the city. It is also home to an annual flower fair called the Feria de las Flores, held since 1856.
In 1934, San Ángel was declared as a ''Pueblo Típico Pintoresco'' (Picturesque Typical Town); in 1987, due to presidential order, it was declared historical monument zone.
Geography
San Ángel is located in the southwest of the Federal District of Mexico along the southern end of Avenida Insurgentes, bordering the
Ciudad Universitaria of
UNAM
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.
For most of its history, the area was politically and physically separate from the urban sprawl of Mexico City, becoming part of it around the mid-20th century.
The community is surrounded by a volcanic rock bed called the Pedregal, which was formed by the eruption of nearby
Xitle Volcano about two thousand years ago. Parts of this volcanic rock bed have been made into protected areas such as the Pedregal de San Ángel. This area is estimated to have a total of 350 native veined plant species, 100 species of birds, forty species of mammals and twenty of reptiles. The representative plant of the area is called the palo loco (crazy stick) because it blooms in the winter rather than the summer.
El Carmen complex
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The
El Carmen complex
El Carmen is a former convent converted to museum in San Ángel, a southern suburb of Mexico City.
The convent was founded on 29 June 1615 by the Discalced Carmelites in the area of the Aztec village of Tenanitla, which was later renamed San Án ...
is the identifying marker of San Ángel, especially the three tiled-covered domes of the church.
It consists of church, former monastery and school buildings.
The monastery school or "Colegio" was founded in 1613, but the building for it would not begin until two years later. This building was designed by Fray Andrés de San Miguel with the first stone laid in 1615, and it was operational in 1617.
The school changed its name to Señora de Santa Ana in 1634, but while it retained the official name, it never caught on popularly.
The church was built between 1624 and 1626 also dedicated to San Ángel Martír. The facade is
Herrerian
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over which is its
bell-gable
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, modeled after that of
San José de Ávila in
Spain
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The structure is topped by three domes covered in glazed tile.
The entire monastery complex was complete in 1628. It was surrounded by large tracts of gardens and orchards, much of which is now Colonia Chimalistac to the east. These orchards made the monastery wealthy and famous.
The monastery and school area came under the custody of the
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, ''National Institute of Anthropology and History'') is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the ...
in 1939 which still maintains it. The current museum was opened in 1955 and is one of the most visited in the city.
The museum conserves a number of the monastery's original spaces, such as the dining room,
and has one of the most important collections of colonial era art in Mexico, including a permanent exhibition called "The Silence of the Carmelites." This traces the history of the order from its origins through images, sculpture, documents, furniture and more.
One reason the museum is well-visited is the mummies on display in the basement crypt area.
From the 17th to the 19th centuries, one way that the order raised funds for its existence was to set aside crypts for donors from the wealthy families of the area. While many of these bodies would be exhumed after a number of years, with their bones stored in an "osorio" later, some of the interred here did not completely decompose. Between 1917 and 1918, troops ransacked the convent, looking for treasure. What they found in the crypt area instead were a number of well-preserved, naturally occurring mummies. The museum has twelve mummies on display in the crypt area, however, many are in deteriorating condition because they are not in hermetically sealed cases.
Other landmarks
![PathDelCarmenSADF](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/PathDelCarmenSADF.JPG)
Around the
Plaza del Carmen, there are a number of historic buildings such as the old municipal palace, which has been converted into the Centro Cultural San Ángel. Near this are two former mansions which belonged to the Mariscal de Castilla. More of the area's mansions are found on La Amargura Street including one that belonged to the Fagoaga family. This structure dates from the 18th century and belonged to
Francisco Fagoaga
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, who ran the
colonial coin mint. It is said that it was also inhabited by Archbishop
Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta
Dr. Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta (October 31, 1729 – May 26, 1800) was archbishop of Mexico from September 12, 1772, to May 26, 1800, and viceroy of New Spain from May 8, 1787, to August 16, 1787.
Origins and education
Núñez de Ha ...
. Another house on this street was the property of
Porfirio Díaz
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. The Casa del Obispo Madrid, in contrast, is a simple
adobe
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structure from 1631, which was the property of Bishop
Fernández de Madrid
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. Later, it was inhabited by
General Santa Anna
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and poet
José Zorrilla
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.
![Diego Rivera en San Jacinto](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Diego_Rivera_en_San_Jacinto.JPG)
The
Plaza de San Jacinto
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is the other main center of the area, best known for its Saturday art bazaar. It is also surrounded by former mansions, most of which have been converted into art galleries and restaurants. The most famous of these is
Casa del Risco from the 17th century. Its interior contains a highly ornate Baroque fountain covered in plates, platters, cups and other ceramic pieces from Asia, Europe and Mexico. On the west side of the plaza is the Church of San Jacinto. The Dominicans founded this church in 1596 dedicated to
Saint Hyacinth. Its main altar is wood covered in gold. The former monastery is austere and served as such until 1754.
![Casa del Risco San Ángel México DF Isidro Fabela 02](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Casa_del_Risco_San_%C3%81ngel_M%C3%A9xico_DF_Isidro_Fabela_02.jpg)
The Plazuela de los Licenciados is on Calle de Juárez with three notable residences. One is in European style, another is from the 18th century and the last was the former Hospital Real de Naturales. A short distance from this plaza is another structure called the Casa Blanca which is possibly the oldest in San Ángel, built in the middle of the 17th century by the Counts of Oploca. Its orchards were second only to those of El Carmen.
The Plaza de Arcangeles is small and not well known but it is distinct in its abundance of trees and other vegetation. Its name comes from three large sandstone benches with the name of the Archangels
Gabriel
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,
Michael
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and
Rafael
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on them.
The
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo is on Altavista and Diego Rivera Streets. These were dual houses, one for each painter, connected which served as homes and work spaces for the pair. The structure was built by
Juan O'Gorman
Juan O'Gorman (July 6, 1905 – January 17, 1982) was a Mexican painter and architect.
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Juan O'Gorman was born on 6 July 1905 in Coyoacán, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal Distri ...
as one of the first
Functionalist structures in Mexico City. The museum has a notable collection of
Judas figures made of paper and cardboard and burnt on
Holy Saturday
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.
The
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil is on Camino al
Desierto de los Leones
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, which has one of the country's best contemporary art collections. It also is a research and support center for artists.
The
Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve is located in the southwest of Mexico City in the
Ciudad Universitaria. It is one of the few undisturbed natural ecosystems in the Valley of Mexico. It is distinguished as being over a relatively solid bed of volcanic rock, from an eruption of the nearby volcano Xitle and has a number of unique plant and animal species.
History
The San Ángel area was originally called Tenanitla, which means "walled in place" in Nahuatl. This referred to the solidified volcanic flow that surrounds the center of San Ángel, which came from the nearby Xitle Volcano about 2,000 years ago.
The modern community has its roots in the establishment of two monastery complexes called San Jacinto and El Carmen in the 16th century, but the real center would be El Carmen.
The Spanish town here was originally established with the name of San Jacinto Tenanitla.
El Carmen was begun in 1597 when in the indigenous leader of
Coyoacán
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, Felipe de Guzmán Itzolinque, along with Andrés de Mondragón and Elvira Gutierrez, donated lands to the
Carmelites
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in the Tenanitla and Chimalistac areas. The monks used the land to establish their monastery and a school for monks, with the school, named San Ángel, inaugurated in 1613. The monastery and school became wealthy and powerful, mostly due to the productively of the lands, especially the orchards which had, at one time, over 13,000 trees.
This prompted the community to rename itself San Ángel.
The monastery complex remained important through the colonial period, but a series of misfortunes would lead to its closure by the end of the 19th century. Shortly after Independence, the complex lost many of its monks, who were Spanish born. It was the site of a struggle called the
Guerra de las Patentes (War of the Patents) over the payment of rental fees for farmland belonging to the monastery, which the monastery lost. During the
Mexican–American War
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, U.S. troops sacked and destroyed some of its buildings and orchards and in 1856, the institution had to begin to partition and sell some of its lands. The monastery was closed as such during the
Reform War
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, with only the church portion remaining completely intact.
The school portion, called the Colegio, was disputed between the municipal governments of Mexico City and San Ángel, which were separate at that time. The dispute was settled in San Ángel's favor in 1874 by
Manuel Payno
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. However, parts of the school would be destroyed in 1891 to make way for the railroad connecting Mexico City to
Tizapán. What remained became the property of the
Secretaría de Educación Pública
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in 1921. In 1939, it would come under the custody of
INAH and in the 1950s, it was converted into a museum.
The rest of San Ángel remained a rural farm community. The first change came in the second half of the 18th century, when wealthy families, such as that of the First Count of Revillagigedo, began to build country homes here. Through the 19th century, the area remained rural and popular for visitors. San Ángel from this time period was described by traveler
Marquesa Calderón de la Barca in her book ''
Life in Mexico
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''.
At the end of the 19th century, a number of factories were set up here such as Loreto, La Alpina and La Hormiga, which raised the area's population. This was the beginning of the urbanization of San Ángel, although it would remain physically separate from the rest of urbanized Mexico City until the mid-20th century.
Much of the area was not considered suitable for mass development until the 1950s, when the Ciudad Universitaria was constructed.
The two growing areas would eventually join, completed with the construction of
Avenida Insurgentes
Avenida de los Insurgentes ( en, Avenue of the Insurgents), sometimes known simply as Insurgentes, is the longest avenue in Mexico City, with a length of on a north-south axis across the city. Insurgentes has its origins in what was during the ...
which divided the former gardens of El Carmen from those of Chimalistac. The construction of Avenida Revolución would then divide San Ángel into two parts.
The Pedregal de San Ángel was declared an ecological reserve in 1983.
Since the 20th century, development pressures have increased, with many residential buildings being converted into commercial areas. To work to preserve the area's rural layout and historic buildings, San Ángel was made the city's first Patrimonial Cultural Tangible de la Ciudad de México (Tangible Cultural Heritage of Mexico City) in 2008.
It was also designated as a
"Barrio Mágico" by the city in 2011.
Architectural Heritage
The architectonic value of this zone is incalculable. Little by little, this value is being lost to modernity, but in general most of the buildings and spaces that represent various architectural styles such as baroque, neoclassical, and neocolonial have been preserved. A walk through these streets guarantees a flashback to centuries ago.
The main features of this zone are its monuments, plazas, narrow stone-paved streets, single or two floored houses made of brick or painted with vivid colors, balconies facing the avenues with vines and decorated front doors.
In this neighborhood, you can find various ''casonas''; big, old, majestic houses that usually once belonged to someone important and now presume various architectural styles.
Casa del Mayorazgo Fagoaga
![Mayorazgo de Fagoaga house facade in San Ángel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Mayorazgo_de_Fagoaga_house_facade_in_San_%C3%81ngel.jpg)
This casona from the 17th century was named after a knight of the Santiago order, Don Francisco de Fagoga who was the owner of the house.
He was a rich silver and gold merchant from the New Spain colonial era, who separated the gold in Mexico City's coin house in 1735.
The house was made with balconies in a Baroque style and it is made as a typical European house from the 19th century with a Neoclassic style.
There's a legend that talks about one day when the Padiema Battle was happening, the General Santa Anna was bowling in this property instead of fighting for the country.
Centro Cultural San Ángel
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The original structure of this cultural center was part of the Colegio Del Carmen. Halfway through the 19th century, the Colegio Del Carmen was demolished almost in its totality to edify San Ángel's Municipal Palace, finished in 1887. A century later, June 23, 1987, the edification was finally destined to be the Centro Cultural San Ángel, having its opening ceremony January 29, 1988. It now holds various temporal expositions and houses the Teatro López Tarso.
Casa de los Dos Patios
This casona was built at the end of the 19th century by philanthropist Francisco de Urquiaga. It features a neoclassical style, popular during the
Porfiriato
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. Its name refers to the two patios the house possesses, the main one with a garden and rooms surrounding it and a secondary one used to keep carriages and horses. Legend tells that it served as a lair for the popular bandit
Chucho el Roto
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, reason why the house is also referred to by his name. The house was restored and now houses the Biblioteca de las Revoluciones de México.
Casa Blanca
This casona belonged to the Oploca counts and resembles the countryside houses from the 17th century. Its facade portrays a now blurry coat of arms. It had the second biggest orchard of San Ángel, after the one in the Convento Del Carmen. It housed invasive troops during the
Mexican–American War
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in 1847. It also housed foreign troops during the
Second French intervention in Mexico
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. Halfway through the 19th century, it was inhabited by judge José del Villar Bocanegra, who rearranged it to serve as barracks for a detachment of emperor
Maximilian I of Mexico
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. Later on, it belonged to a nun congregation. The residence was then bought and sold a number of times before being acquired by Mr. William Lucien Morkil in 1902.
![Fuente Casa del Risco San Ángel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Fuente_Casa_del_Risco_San_%C3%81ngel.JPG)
Casa del Risco
This construction of the 17th century was the residence of various characters of Mexican history. During the regime of General
Antonio López de Santa Anna
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the house was used as barracks during the
Mexican–American War
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. Later on it became a hospital that served the
Saint Patrick's Battalion
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, composed mainly by Irish soldiers who defended the Mexican people from invasive troops. In 1933, the Casa del Risco was acquired by
Isidro Fabela
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who donated it to the Mexican people along with his art collection in 1963. The collection consists of more than 1,500,000 documents and around 1,500 photographs, most of them related to the
Mexican Revolution
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. Thanks to that, it now hosts the Centro Cultural Isidro Fabela. Apart from the Historical Archive and some galleries, it has an auditorium where cultural and academic activities are held. The mayor attraction of the museum is a
Baroque
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fountain made of tile, porcelain, seashells and Chinese crockery featuring figures of mermaids and fish.
Feria de las Flores
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The main annual event for San Ángel is the Feria de las Flores or Flower Fair, which takes place in July. This event has its origins in the pre-Hispanic period as an event dedicated to
Xiuhtecuitl, a god of flowers. The purpose of the original event was to seek the god's protection for the area's floral and fruit crops. When the Carmelites come to the area, they adapted the ritual to
Our Lady of Mount Carmen
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, making her the patroness of the area. This resulted in a festival with both indigenous and Catholic elements. The modern version of the festival began in the late 19th century. Although the religious event continued through the colonial period, its popularity had waned. In 1885, an effort was made to rescue the tradition, having two events, one dedicated to the Our Lady of Mount Carmen and the other to Xiuhtecuitl. These were fused in 1940 by borough authorities with the name la Feria de las Flores de San Ángel. Since then, the event has become more secular.
It begin with a parade of floats starting at the
Parque de la Bombilla, and includes activities such as painting exhibitions and contests, concerts, dance and theater recitals,
charreada and food tasting.
Economy
San Ángel is home to many upscale restaurants (particularly along Avenida de la Paz); boutique shopping center Plaza Grand San Ángel and the more commercial Plaza Loreto serve the affluent living in the southwest of the city. San Ángel itself hosts no large malls with department or big box stores. The Mercado del Carmen contains a
food hall and design shops. The neighborhood also hosts a concentration of upscale interior design and furniture showrooms along Altavista street, and near the central plaza a concentration of some of the more exclusive shops selling curated selections of Mexican folk art.
Public transportation
San Ángel is served by Line 1 (
Insurgentes line) of the
Mexico City Metrobús
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bus rapid transit system, by COREV (Corridor Revolución) buses, while the
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo station on
Line 3 of the
Mexico City metro
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(subway) is about 1 kilometer east of the neighborhood.
References
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